Online Justice Seeking and Law Reform in Iran
Post to Change
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publishing:18th Feb '27
£85.00
This title is due to be published on 18th February, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
An examination into how public perceptions of gender equality and women's rights are expressed on Iranian social media, and the way in which this impacts demands for legal reform within the country.
Online Justice Seeking and Law Reform in Iran: Post to Change offers a socio-legal study of how Iranian women use social media and online platforms to interpret law, express legal needs, challenge gender inequality, and demand justice. Focusing on women’s personal status laws, the book examines how public perceptions of marriage, family law, compulsory hijab, sexual harassment, and sexual violence are shaped and contested in Iran’s digital public sphere.
Drawing on netnographic research, case studies, online legal enquiries, court judgments, and social media campaigns, Sahar Maranlou explores how women use online spaces to access legal information, build solidarity, narrate injustice, and pressure the justice system towards greater gender sensitivity. The book pays particular attention to campaigns around child marriage, forms of marriage, #MeToo, and hijab law, showing how online justice seeking connects everyday legal experiences with wider demands for law reform.
Rather than treating social media only as a tool of activism or resistance, this book examines it as a site of public legal culture, legal empowerment, and socio-legal transformation. It argues that, despite barriers to formal reform, online platforms have opened new possibilities for women’s access to justice in Iran’s plural legal system.
Offers a timely and nuanced socio-legal analysis of how Iranian women engage digital platforms
as sites of legal meaning-making, empowerment, and justice seeking within a plural legal system. Grounded in rich empirical research and feminist legal theory, the book makes an important contribution to scholarship on access to justice, public legal culture, and gender in contemporary Iran. It will be of significant interest to scholars and graduate students working across law and society, gender studies, Middle East studies, and digital media.
Sahar Maranlou offers a fresh and compelling account of how women engage with law beyond the courtroom, revealing how online spaces have become sites where legal meanings are negotiated, public legal culture takes shape, and demands for reform find their voice. Original, accessible, and deeply researched, this book is an important contribution to contemporary socio-legal scholarship. * Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Professorial Research Associate, Centre for Islamic and Middle Eastern Law (CIMEL), SOAS,
ISBN: 9780755653300
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208 pages